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Gubal Barge

Also known as The Barge; Barge de Gubal; Bluff Point Barge; Bluff Point Wreck

The classic Red Sea night dive - the wreck is a moray and crustacean city after dark

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The classic Red Sea night dive - the wreck is a moray and crustacean city after dark. Shallow, sheltered and easy, making it a favourite second/third dive and check dive. Broken-open hull with easy ambient-light swim-throughs. Depth 3–18 m; liveaboard only; Sheltered - the barge sits in the lee of Small Gubal and is protected from the strong north-south current that scours Bluff Point current. ship_type: Steel supply barge / landing craft, probably Egyptian military; length_m: about 20-30; date_sunk: 1967, generally attributed to the Six Day War; cause: Reported sunk by Israeli aircraft during the 1967 war; the identity has…

Highlights

  • The classic Red Sea night dive - the wreck is a moray and crustacean city after dark
  • Shallow, sheltered and easy, making it a favourite second/third dive and check dive
  • Broken-open hull with easy ambient-light swim-throughs

Marine life

  • giant, peppered, yellow-mouth and yellow-margin moray eels
  • Spanish dancers
  • octopus
  • crabs and shrimps
  • nudibranchs
  • cardinalfish
  • lionfish
  • scorpionfish
  • stonefish
  • crocodilefish
  • glassfish

Good to know

Best season
Year-round. Water 22-29 C; calmest seas and best visibility March-November, with the coolest water and strongest northerlies December-February.
Protected status
Egyptian Red Sea marine protected area; HEPCA-maintained mooring buoys, anchoring prohibited
Fees
No separate site fee published; environmental tax historically 3.5 LE/diver/day (Red Sea Governorate, 2001), collection suspended after January 2011 per HEPCA.
Wreck
ship_type: Steel supply barge / landing craft, probably Egyptian military; length_m: about 20-30; date_sunk: 1967, generally attributed to the Six Day War; cause: Reported sunk by Israeli aircraft during the 1967 war; the identity has never been formally established; orientation: Broken and largely collapsed on a sand and coral bottom on the sheltered side of Small Gubal; hull in about 12-18 m with debris up onto the reef shallows.; wreck_depth_m: 3-18; penetration: Limited - the hull is broken open and can be swum through, but there is little enclosed space left.

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